Lately in Italy the theme of periphery has been more and more often dealt with also out of the academical field, it also seems that the topic is increasingly interesting the local and national political scene; that makes us hope to be soon all involved in their regeneration. In order to deeply understand the contemporary essence of the Italian suburbs, it is interesting to take into consideration their genesis. The following interview aims at investigating the role played by the “public city” (Di Biagi 2001, p.3) in the definition of the suburbs and especially the strategy played by G. Campos Venuti, who in the contest of Bologna interpreted the PEEP interventions as a tool of government and re-connection between the historical city and the new satellites (attractions), such as the INA-Casa districts.

Leonardo Tedeschi graduated in November 2015 at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ferrara with a thesis about the regeneration of INA-Casa districts (http://issuu.com/leonardotedeschi6/docs/centrare_il_margine). Currently he works in Berlin in a studio engaged in the field of urban research and architectural design. During the last years spent in Bologna he got involved in the Social Street phenomenon, on which he’s been invited to talk in several conferences across Italy. On March 2014 he started up InStabile-Community Creative Hub (https://instabileportazza.wordpress.com), a regeneration project of an abandoned building in Bologna’s hinterland, aiming at turning it into an innovative source of job, culture and welfare for the urban suburb.